"Jennifer McKemie" <jmckemie@mindspring.com> wrote: > Can anyone offer any suggestions for finding landmarks and place > names featuring a particular surname? Go to the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System at: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form Type in the surname and you'll get a list of geographic features containing the name. You can see a sample at this page of my web site: http://www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/places.htm I see that my page needs updating. I had linked each of the places to the USGS page giving full details on each feature, but these seem to no longer be accurate. Regards, Richard "Richard A. Pence" <richardpence@pipeline.com>